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Memory and agency in ancient China : shaping the life history of objects / edited by Francis Allard, Yan Sun, Kathryn M. Linduff.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Material culture--China--History.
- Material culture.
- History.
- China--Civilization.
- China.
- Civilization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introduction: memory and agency in ancient China: shaping the life histories of objects / Francis Allard, Yan Sun and Katheryn M. Linduff
- Memory, amnesia and the formation of identity symbols in China / Gideon Shelach
- The lives of shovels and bells in early south China: memory, ritual and the power of destination / Francis Allard
- The whole and fragmented lives of jade objects from late Neolithic middle Yangzi River burials (ca. 2000 BC) / Sascha Priewe
- The social life of salt in ancient China from the late Neolithic to the Han Dynasty / Pochan Chen
- A divergent life history of bronze willow-leaf-shaped swords of western Zhou China from 11th to C. 10th centuries BCE / Yan Sun
- Bird-pillar basins and cylindrical vessels: object lineage in ancient China / Xiaolong Wu
- Toiletries and the production of social memory from the warring states through the Han (4th C. BCE-3rd C. CE) / Sheri Lullo
- A biographical approach to the study of the mounted archer motif during the Han Dynasty / Leslie Wallace
- Dynamic between form and material: the bi disc in Western Han noble burial ritual / Eileen Lam
- Crossing the Taiwan strait: contextualizing and re-contextualizing Taiwan aboriginal objects (1895-1980) / Du Hui
- Artifacts that invoke the aura and authority of the ancient / Katheryn M. Linduff.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 3, 2019).
- ISBN:
- 9781108665995
- 1108665993
- Publisher Number:
- 40028808275
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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